Chapter 8. Managing the Cloud
As studied in earlier chapters, cloud platforms need to ensure that the system supports on-demand scaling as well as enables a pay-per-use model. Both of the above needs require that the system be monitored on a fine time scale. Additionally, management of cloud infrastructure is nontrivial because of the scale of cloud systems with multiple users. Challenges arise in every aspect of management, such as allocating resources in such a way as to ensure that SLAs are not violated; troubleshooting performance problems and failures; or upgrading the cloud infrastructure. This chapter describes approaches to these problems ...

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